The Yahoo! article is just a reprint from an article in Bicycling. Yahoo! seems to do that a lot.
The sensationalism interests me. I remember seeing old footage of a young news hawker standing on a street corner selling newspapers with the headlines of the Titanic sinking.
Those kids often had sensationalist ways of selling the paper. “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Unsinkable ship takes a plunge!” Was the way they sold the news.
Times have changed. Mediums have changed. People’s willingness to succumb to drama hasn’t. I guess it still works.